I'd like to write a piece of software which makes it trivially easy to record and instantaneously play back sound. This piece of software would be operated by holding down keys on the computer's keyboard. For example:
- Holding down 'R' records whatever goes into the computer's microphone while the key is held down and stored in the next unused buffer.
- Holding down 'P' plays back all the buffers at the same time (until the last buffer runs out or the key is released, whichever happens first).
- Holding down 'B' does both (with appropriate cancellation of the output signal from the input signal).
This software would enable a truly epic (and slightly shorter than normal) reading of the children's book "Doggies". For those unfamiliar with the book, there are ten dogs, each of which has a different bark ("Woof", "Yap yap", "Ruff ruff ruff" etc.). On the first page the first dog barks, on the second page the first and second dogs bark and so on.
With the aid of this software, the human reader/operator need only make each dog sound once. Furthermore, all the dog sounds would be heard simultaneously, making the immediate vicinity sound like a dog pound by page ten.
I'm sure there are other uses too, but this was the inspiration.